Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "soviet-embassy"

1. Bridge of Spies (2015)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, History, Thriller

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan

Votes: 327,492 | Gross: $72.31M

2. Thirteen Days (2000)

PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll, Drake Cook

Votes: 62,645 | Gross: $34.59M

3. Raise the Titanic (1980)

PG | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Once they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on Earth could reach her. But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlantic grave.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer

Votes: 5,420 | Gross: $14.82M

4. Topaz (1969)

M/PG | 143 min | Drama, Thriller

A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor

Votes: 19,526 | Gross: $8.37M

5. The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

R | 131 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten

Votes: 12,657 | Gross: $17.10M

6. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

After a series of misunderstandings, the head of an aerospace research laboratory begins to suspect that his new girlfriend is a Russian spy.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver

Votes: 5,235

7. The Iron Curtain (1948)

Approved | 87 min | Biography, Crime, History

The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger

Votes: 1,104

8. Legacy (2013 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past.

Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Andrew Scott, Charlie Cox, Romola Garai, Geraldine James

Votes: 468

9. 23 (1998)

99 min | Drama, Thriller

When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan-Gregor Kremp

Votes: 7,283

10. Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

Fact-based story about a 1990s espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in U.S. history. Aldrich Ames (Timothy Hutton) was a middle class C.I.A. Agent, whose ... See full summary »

Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Joan Plowright, Elizabeth Peña, C. David Johnson

Votes: 364

11. Escape to Nowhere (1973)

PG | 117 min | Drama, Thriller

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon, Robert Hardy

Votes: 1,057

12. A Touch of Larceny (1960)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy

Royal Navy Commander Max Easton fakes his defection to the Soviets in order to sue the slandering newspapers for the money he needs to woo a fancy American woman.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles, Oliver Johnston

Votes: 656

13. Family of Spies (1990)

Not Rated | 175 min | Drama

Based on a true story, a naval officer (Powers Boothe) sells top-secret information to the Soviets and recruits family and friends into the scheme.

Stars: Powers Boothe, Lesley Ann Warren, Lili Taylor, Graham Beckel

Votes: 302

14. The Eye of Vichy (1993)

Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, War

This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Brian Cox, Maquisard Alfonso, General Bergeret

Votes: 345

15. Bodomin legenda (2006 TV Movie)

94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Tapio Piirainen | Stars: Juha Muje, Pekka Huotari, Niina Nurminen, Kai Lehtinen

Votes: 193

16. The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode: The Captive (1967)

TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Wesley Sanders breaks into the embassy of a foreign power to steal troop movement data. But he fails to disarm the security and gets caught. Examining him, Dr. Serret notices some strange ... See full summary »

Director: William Hale | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Dana Wynter, Don Dubbins, Fritz Weaver

Votes: 183

17. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: How Does Your Garden Grow? (1991)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

At a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison.

Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran

Votes: 1,513

18. Spy Game (1997)
Episode: How Diplomatic of You (1998)

TV-14 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The team must infiltrate the embassy of Kurganistan, a fictional post-Soviet state represented by ambassador and deadly spy Allegra Markovich, and retrieve stolen tech secretly created by the U.S. to crash enemy systems over the Internet.

Director: John T. Kretchmer | Stars: Linden Ashby, Allison Smith, Bruce McCarty, Kim Johnston Ulrich

Votes: 12

19. Timewatch (1982– )
Episode: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)

99 min | Documentary, History

A detailed look at the early life of Oswald and his movements on the day of the Kennedy assassination.

Stars: James P. Hosty, Gerald Posner, G. Robert Blakey, Evelyn Segal

Votes: 10

20. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: The Soviet General Who Switched Sides (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Arguably the greatest spy for the West during the Cold War, Dimitriy Polyakov was a Russian Military Intelligence General who turned on Russia. He was run by the CIA and FBI and betrayed by both Ames and Hanssen.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: Eva Dillon, James M. Olson, Paul Joyal, Oleg Kalugin

21. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode: L'Homme rouge (2015)

TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War

1942.After blocking the Germans right outside of Moscow, Stalin now faces Hitler's second assault. The world's fate will be decided in Stalingrad. Like in Leningrad, men, women and children, plunged into hell, are sacrificed.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Svetlana Alliluyeva

Votes: 77